Petition to Allow Private Midwives to be Eligible for Professional Indemnity Insurance or to Be Exempt from Being Required to Enroll in PI
962 Comments
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Rhianan Hammond
8 years ago
Women should have access to maternal care, wherever they choose to birth
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Miriam Wilkinson
9 years ago
The service these wonderful midwives provide is precious and irreplaceable - of COURSE they should be able to protect their livelihoods with PI insurance - just like any private health professional!
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Michelle Dryburgh
9 years ago
The statistics prove home births and low assistance births have better outcomes for mother and child than hospital births with interference and interruptions. Give women the power to deliver a child in the comfort and safety of their home under the protective and empowering watch of registered midwives.
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Georgia
9 years ago
Let people help people...
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Eloise
10 years ago
BIRTH FREEDOM!
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Sarah
10 years ago
Come on, birth is the most natural thing in the planet! Humans have the right to give birth at home (just like animals do in the wild) with the support of a midwife!
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Mary Zwart
10 years ago
If no insurance cie will take this "risk" than the goverments have to cover this.
It is a Human Right for women to have a safe choice for the place of birth.
Home birth is even a better choice by scientivic surveys for women and children.
So it is time that goverments act on this right, make a safe infra structure and get midwives insured so that women can make this choice
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Nora
10 years ago
I want women and their partners to be free in this and to be able to have a midwife on their side.
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Sharon Lockman
10 years ago
Freedom of choice. Use this as research to get a accurate % case of risk compared to hospital births. Women opting for home birth are generally more educated & prepared. Hombirth Midwives have emergency tools & oxygen & hospitals are generally quite close if an emergency visit is called for. I had a home birth & was a support person for 5 home births & 2 hospital births. The safety of familiar home & established relationship midwife was noticeably extremely more comfortable & relaxed for mother in Labour. I believe more home births with emergency backup prepared our births would be way safer, less traumatic & less emergency cesarean. For sure.
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Aisha Smith
10 years ago
Women and midwives own the right to have and attend homebirths. Stripping them of this will have dire consequences for all affected; mothers, babies, and midwives. There is too much at stake.
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Bridget Bright
10 years ago
After a beautiful, relaxed home birth guided & supported by 2 amazing midwives, I strongly believe that all women have the right to choose the best birthing model for them and their un born babies.
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Beth
10 years ago
I want to be able to provide safe, professional care to women in the environment that they choose to birth in. If there is open collaboration woman can access safe care.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
I have birthed one baby at home and it was absolutely fine. My midwives were brilliant, I have never felt so supported, encouraged or empowered. All women should be able to have the same level of care at home if that is their decision
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woody sampson
10 years ago
Blessings
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Debbie Reichard
10 years ago
It's life's choices we are fighting for here. Birth choices are life choices.
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Stephanie brookes
10 years ago
I support homebirth as an option for all women in Australia with a midwife in attendance. I birthed 2 children at home in 1991 and 1995. A natural birth and safe.
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Fenna
10 years ago
Blessings!
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Heather Zuze
10 years ago
Practising midwife-hospital accredited for home births
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Tania Bucknell
10 years ago
Sort it out government
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Emilie
10 years ago
Home births should be encouraged and well supported, it`s the natural from millennia! At least give women a choice of having a safe home options with covered midwives. Hospitals are not always safer... Thank you for your understanding and openness. Prayers and blessings with this petition.
Women should have access to maternal care, wherever they choose to birth
The service these wonderful midwives provide is precious and irreplaceable - of COURSE they should be able to protect their livelihoods with PI insurance - just like any private health professional!
The statistics prove home births and low assistance births have better outcomes for mother and child than hospital births with interference and interruptions. Give women the power to deliver a child in the comfort and safety of their home under the protective and empowering watch of registered midwives.
Let people help people...
BIRTH FREEDOM!
Come on, birth is the most natural thing in the planet! Humans have the right to give birth at home (just like animals do in the wild) with the support of a midwife!
If no insurance cie will take this "risk" than the goverments have to cover this. It is a Human Right for women to have a safe choice for the place of birth. Home birth is even a better choice by scientivic surveys for women and children. So it is time that goverments act on this right, make a safe infra structure and get midwives insured so that women can make this choice
I want women and their partners to be free in this and to be able to have a midwife on their side.
Freedom of choice. Use this as research to get a accurate % case of risk compared to hospital births. Women opting for home birth are generally more educated & prepared. Hombirth Midwives have emergency tools & oxygen & hospitals are generally quite close if an emergency visit is called for. I had a home birth & was a support person for 5 home births & 2 hospital births. The safety of familiar home & established relationship midwife was noticeably extremely more comfortable & relaxed for mother in Labour. I believe more home births with emergency backup prepared our births would be way safer, less traumatic & less emergency cesarean. For sure.
Women and midwives own the right to have and attend homebirths. Stripping them of this will have dire consequences for all affected; mothers, babies, and midwives. There is too much at stake.
After a beautiful, relaxed home birth guided & supported by 2 amazing midwives, I strongly believe that all women have the right to choose the best birthing model for them and their un born babies.
I want to be able to provide safe, professional care to women in the environment that they choose to birth in. If there is open collaboration woman can access safe care.
I have birthed one baby at home and it was absolutely fine. My midwives were brilliant, I have never felt so supported, encouraged or empowered. All women should be able to have the same level of care at home if that is their decision
Blessings
It's life's choices we are fighting for here. Birth choices are life choices.
I support homebirth as an option for all women in Australia with a midwife in attendance. I birthed 2 children at home in 1991 and 1995. A natural birth and safe.
Blessings!
Practising midwife-hospital accredited for home births
Sort it out government
Home births should be encouraged and well supported, it`s the natural from millennia! At least give women a choice of having a safe home options with covered midwives. Hospitals are not always safer... Thank you for your understanding and openness. Prayers and blessings with this petition.